Job Description

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $576 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, S\xc3\xa3o Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments\' important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here\'s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.



The Total Fund Management Department:
Total Fund Management (TFM) articulates CPP Investments\' investment objectives, designs and recommends the Investment Portfolios, and systematically deploys the balancing programs in order to manage Fund\'s exposures, leverage, and liquidity over all horizons. TFM is also responsible for management and execution of the Total Fund\'s financing, collateral and trading needs (excluding credit).

The Trading team oversees global trading and execution of all public assets (excluding credit) across all major markets on behalf of all investment departments and the Balancing Portfolio. Trading is organized into three teams: Equities, Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC) and Analytics

We are currently recruiting for the Trading group, for a twelve-month opportunity with a tentative start date between June and September 2024. Students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate co-op programs, or non-co-op programs and those pursuing their professional experience year (PEY) and individuals who have graduated in April 2023 or later from an undergraduate or advanced degree program in a quantitative discipline, such as Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Finance or Math are eligible to apply.

Primary Responsibilities:

Support the Analytics team in the creation of proprietary analytics and tools to generate insights and actionable outcomes for trading. Work on a multidisciplinary team of traders, coders, and data scientists to apply varied skill sets to interesting research problems.

Other Responsibilities:

Working with the Trading team to deliver global world class execution using trading algorithms and bespoke transactions across many assets including Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies, Derivatives and Commodities.

Qualifications

Who We\'re Looking For

• The ideal candidate is either i) enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate co-op program, ii) enrolled in a non-co-op program and pursuing a professional experience year (PEY), or iii) has graduated in August 2023 or later from an undergraduate or advanced degree program.
• You are working towards a degree with a specialization in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative disciplines.
• The team works in a dynamic interactive environment which requires the candidate to have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrates intuition, intellectual curiosity and scientific rigour, strong independent research skill.
• Interest in finance/investment management.
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
• Coding proficiency in R or Python, experience working with SQL.
• Able to collect data, define problems, establish facts, and leverage data visualization to draw valid conclusions Candidates must exemplify CPP Investments\' guiding principles of high performance, integrity, and partnership.

Additional Information

If you have an interest in working with talented professionals in the financial industry in an environment of integrity, partnership and high performance, then you should consider a career in at CPP Investments.

To apply, please include a cover letter, resume and transcripts (full unofficial version).

Deadline: Thursday, February 29, 2024

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:
CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered. CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.

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